dyn.politico.com -- There’s some chatter about Erskine Bowles, but he’s not trusted by the inner circle and hasn’t helped his cause since the end of the Bowles-Simpson Commission. Roger Altman, who was a deputy at Treasury under Clinton, is also seen as a possibility.
Much of Rouse’s attention has been focused on trying to find a Fortune 500 CEO to recruit, such as Larry Fink of BlackRock, Tony James of the Blackstone Group and David Cote of Honeywell or even Eric Schmidt of Google. Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s name comes up — Obama clearly likes her, and she served as chief of staff at the department under Larry Summers. She would also be the first woman to run Treasury after an election in which middle-class women provided a crucial margin for the president. But despite the recent uptick in the stock price, her company still has a lot of work ahead